April 11, 2025
Labour Fair 2025: Building a workers’ first emergency response to the tariff crisis
Labour Fair 2025 keynote speaker, Deena Ladd, discusses what’s needed for “workers’ first” response to the tariff crisis.
Needs No Introduction
A series of speeches and lectures from the finest minds of our time. Fresh ideas from speakers of note.
April 2, 2025
Labour Fair 2025: The critical need for labour education
In the opening discussion of the 33rd annual Labour Fair at George Brown College, JP Hornick discusses labour organizing and the critical need for labour education in these times.
March 12, 2025
Rebranded fascism, higher education and the burden of conscience
Henry Giroux discusses the rise of a new brand of fascism in the US, the attack on democracy and its cultural institutions and the necessity for critical education and a pedagogy of resistance.
February 19, 2025
George Brown College’s 25th annual Mental Health Conference: Decolonizing learning and creating conditions for student well-being
In episode four, we focus on the upcoming 25th annual Mental Health Conference at George Brown College in Toronto and this year’s theme, Thriving Together in the Classroom: Creating the Conditions for Student Well-Being.
February 13, 2025
Oxfam Inequality Report 2025: Billionaire colonialism in Canada
We continue our discussion on Oxfam’s 2025 global inequality report with Veldon Coburn and the past and present of corporate and billionaire colonialism in Canada.
February 5, 2025
Oxfam Inequality Report 2025: The takers not makers of billionaire colonialism
Lauren Ravon discusses this year’s Oxfam International report on the extreme and obscene wealth of the billionaire class and its connection to colonialism.
January 22, 2025
Do we need a new progressive alternative in Canada?
In the season launch of the Courage My Friends podcast series, Taylor Noakes, John Clarke and Ricardo Tranjan discuss the need for a progressive political alternative in Canada.
December 10, 2024
BRICS, de-dollarization and Canada in a multipolar world
In episode seven, Dr. Radhika Desai and Dr. Shaun Narine discuss the rise of the Global South, challenges to the rules-based international order of the Global North and Canada’s place within a multipolar world.
November 26, 2024
Who’s hungry? More than ever before
Ryan Noble of Toronto’s North York Harvest Food Bank and Marissa Alexander of Food Secure Canada discuss the alarming and exponential growth of hunger in Toronto and across Canada.
November 12, 2024
The Honourable Murray Sinclair: 2018 keynote address on Indigenous Ways of Knowing
In episode five, we remember the Honourable Murray Sinclair by featuring his 2018 keynote address on Community, Education, Change: Indigenous Ways of Knowing.
October 29, 2024
Palestinian storytelling as resilience, recuperation and resistance
In episode four, Palestinian storyteller Sarah Abu-Sharar joins us for our third annual Mouth Open Story Jump Out episode. Through Palestinian folktales and stories of her father, she reflects on the meaning and power of stories within Palestinian resilience, recuperation and resistance.
October 8, 2024
EdTech, AI and platform capitalism in the classroom
Rahul Kumar and Tanner Mirrlees discuss the rise of education technology and artificial intelligence across colleges and universities.